Busy Poppin' Pals Toys Recalled

August 16, 2000

Playskool, a division of toy giant Hasbro Inc., is recalling about 420,000 Busy Poppin' Pals toys because children could choke or be cut by small springs that can break loose from inside the toy. Playskool, of Pawtucket, R.I., has received 16 reports of springs breaking, including five instances in which children put the broken springs in their mouths with two children suffering cuts, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday. The Busy Poppin' Pals is a 13-inch-long white plastic toy with blue, yellow and red buttons, levers and knobs of various shapes that make animal characters pop up from under the toy's base. The animals are hidden under blue, yellow or red lids that have the numbers 1 through 5 on top. The pop-up animals are a giraffe, elephant, panda bear, lion and monkey.